Coco Rocha Talks Posing, Confidence & More

From playing muse to Zac Posen and snagging international magazine covers, as well being one of the few models mentioned a Kanye West song, Coco Rocha is going strong.

This weekend following a conversation with Dean Simon Collins, a pregnant Coco Rocha stepped onstage at Parsons The New School for Design and posed for 5 minute sessions over the course of an hour while fashion students at the prestigious school gathered to sketch her. The occasion was in celebration of her latest book and app, Study of Pose: 1,000 Poses—which acts as a new encyclopedia for every sort of fashion model pose in existence. Photographer Steven Sebring, who shot Rocha for the book, also attended the event, and instagrammed some of the best moments. Here, the highlights of the conversation.

On her new book: "In the 90s, Steven Sebring mentioned he wanted to do something like an encyclopedia or reference book for 1,000 poses, but he couldn't find quite the right model to do it. He met me, and I'm the model who is known for posing."

Models are important: "A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer—how they make you feel a certain way—how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people."

On Gaultier's model mistake: "He wrote the forward for the book, and mentions that one of the shows that he thought was the worst in his career was when he did a show without models, and just a conveyor belt with hangers or dolls."

On models with confidence: "You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'how are they judging me?'"

On the casting process: "As a model, we come in the room and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny, I think I'm clever. But in the end they're picking me for my cheekbones or if I'm tall enough."

Her favorite pose ever: "One of my favorite poses, was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him and we were trying to get the cover of Italian Vogue. Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down and gave a rolling eye, ugh face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian Vogue."

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